1:59pm: The Yankees announced that they have acquired Maybin from the Indians and immediately selected his contract to the Major League roster. In order to clear a spot on the 40-man roster, Luis Severino was transferred from the 10-day IL to the 60-day IL.
11:31am: MLB Network’s Jon Heyman tweets that the Yankees are sending cash to the Indians in return for Maybin.
11:06am: The Yankees have acquired veteran outfielder Cameron Maybin from the Indians, Jack Curry of the YES Network reports (Twitter link). He’d been with Cleveland’s Triple-A affiliate after signing a minor league contract and was not on the club’s 40-man roster.
It seems quite plausible, however, that Maybin could be added to the big league roster in New York. The Yankees placed Clint Frazier on the injured list this morning and are also without Aaron Judge, Aaron Hicks, Giancarlo Stanton and Jacoby Ellsbury, leaving them with an outfield mix comprised of Brett Gardner, Mike Tauchman and Tyler Wade.
Maybin, 32, has opened the season in Triple-A Columbus with a .229/.397/.292 batting line through 63 trips to the plate. He is, of course, a seasoned big league veteran who has logged parts of 12 seasons at the MLB level and compiled a career-long .254/.322/.368 slash line. Most recently, Maybin split the 2018 season between the Marlins and Mariners, hitting .249/.326/.336 with four homers and 10 steals in 384 plate appearances. He spent Spring Training with the Giants organization, but poor performance and a DUI arrest while in camp unsurprisingly led the Giants to move in another direction.
Defensively, Maybin isn’t the player that he once was, but he still boasts well above-average speed and has ample experience playing all three outfield spots. Last year’s 28.5 ft/sec average sprint speed, as measured by Statcast, ranked Maybin in the 84th percentile of all big leaguers.
The move seems likely to be a short-term boost for the Yankees’ outfield depth. If the team can manage to get each of Hicks, Judge, Stanton and Frazier healthy, there’d be little room with Gardner and Tauchman also in the fold. And if injuries to any of the Yankees’ key outfield assets prove to ultimately be more severe than initially feared, it’s likely that the New York front office would pursue a more impactful upgrade down the line.
Welcome about Cam
Cashman dumpster diving again.
What else is he supposed to do?
Adam Duvall is stuck down in Gwinett and has an OPS over .900. I would take him over Maybin any day.
I would argue that Maybin has more appeal since he’s a better glove, better contact skills, brings some speed to the table and can play all 3 OF positions and can be a pinch runner off the bench once they start to bring others back. The fact that he’s at least an average if not slightly above average CF is super important in case Gardner catches the injury bug since we really don’t have anyone else suited for that position. And oh yeah, Duvall isn’t that good at baseball any more.
Maybin has no power but at least he had an above .200 bat avg and above .300 OBP.. Duvall was an awful .195/.274/365 last year and struck out at a higher rate than Maybin,
As much as I like Maybin, Duvall is rated as the better defender. The main reason, I believe the Braves traded for him last season. I definitely agree with you about Duvall’s bat. It didn’t travel with him to the Braves unfortunately. Both players are good guys. Hopefully everything works out for them.
I would have brought in Ackley he’s healthy now hit 286/378/398 last yr in AAA and plays 5 positions.at .991 % and would sign for 750k
Yep, don’t know why Cashman didn’t trade for Trout.
What make believe trade are you talking about?
It’s called sarcasm…
How many outfielders are out there available right now?
Give us a list
One more bad one?
What is Cashman supposed to do? Options are limited this early. Not that they have any use for long term replacements anyway, but most teams aren’t going to trade significant pieces of their roster in April. Not much else you can do but utilize waiver claims and swing minor deals for depth guys. Not that there’s any good options left in FA, but any FA OF that wasn’t on a team recently would take too long to get ready.
Dumpster diving to wins every night, lol
Dumpster diving at the Ritz… LOL What a great trade.
Puzzling aren’t the Indians short on outfielders?
Yes they are, and they themselves are just one injury away from needing to call up Maybin. Really makes no sense unless Maybin was approaching an opt out date.
The Indians have Brandon Barnes, Trace Thompson, Oscar Mercado and Daniel Johnson all in line if they needed an OF. Sure none of them are great options, they they are high on Mercado and Johnson and both Barnes and Thompson had good springs. So Maybin was expendable.
Incorrect. Mercado is tearing it up in Columbus. Surprised/irritated that he hasn’t been called up already.
Until they prove they can hit major league pitching, they’re a crap shoot….hence the not great option comment. Remember Matt LaPorta?
But I agree that he needs a look soon!
Not really the best comparison, but yeah, I remember him. Mercado can run and play defense already, things Matt was never blessed at.
Time to give Oscar a shot at hitting.
They are short on $ too…
They’ve got plenty of bad outfielders, though, which makes him expendable
Think Maybin is mostly just a name now. Glove still there, but base stealing ability is about gone and the bat never was.
Could be just another emergency depth callup should New York need one and then the Yanks themselves get rid of him.
The Indians have a competent CF in leonys Martin. Maybin in a corner slot is thoroughly uninteresting and zimmer will eventually be back. They also have Mercado who should get a shot soon considering how predictably terrible Allen and Naquin have been.
Just short on MLB outfielders, they can have this one for the $3.98 it’ll take to get him.
Indians gave him a job? Wow. Thought that dui would have nixed things this year good for trash can though
C’mon DOWN!
Everyone is welcome and doing one heck of job!
So, C YA
Good get- better than minor leaguer w no MLB experience, plus he’s fast.
BTW – has Cashman fired their strength & conditioning staff & trainers yet? I mean what the heck more proof does Top Mgmt need that the current seasons IL? Holy
good luck cam, try not to get injured on the flight over
He’ll get injured on the commute to the Yankees.
Lol
Sprained his right wrist severely while signing the Yankee’s contract will go on the 10day IL later this afternoon…… Can’t throw or bat…..
A move such as this was expected. Temporary fill in until Frazier and/or Stanton get back. Help hold the fort.
Seems like it was just the other day he was wearing braces and hitting a bomb of Roger Clemens in Yankee Stadium
Mr. Maybin,.
Welcome to the club. Here is your uniform and day passes to planet fitness. We get priority access to the free weights on tuesdays and saturdays.
Traded what for him?
A box of Cracker Jack sounds about right.
That seems like a fair deal tbh…
Cold hard cash
Some beer and a car
Will he be driving drunk to games?
Frazier just can not stay healthy which is why his trade value is lower. He has to prove he can play for more than a few weeks to regain any value.
This is a good band aid for NY. Maybin will get them the help they need in that outfield. No doubt
He’ll be a body for the (hopefully) week that Frazier is on the IL.
I’ll be surprised if he isn’t back in AAA or released two weeks from now.
Watch him hit .300 and be solid for two weeks before breaking his leg.
I always thought this guy would eventually be a minor star; he always looked great in a uniform and early in his career he was an athletic centerfielder, but the bat just never came around. I can’t imagine he gets much time with the Yankees but I was also surprised to see he’s only 32.
Dear Yankees and Cashman haters,
Make jokes and silly comments all you want, but how do you think they are doing with all the mix and matching while so many are hurt?
This teams deserves some credit, but you CAN’T admit it
What Yankee haters? Mostly it’s just making fun of Maybin… Who hasn’t exactly been good in years….
Love the Yankee fans that call you a hater if they think there is even the tiniest bit of a hint of anything that could be considered remotely negative, you are labeled a Yankee hater. Since we are making fun of Mr. Maybin who is now considered a Yankee, we must be a haters because we are now making fun of a Yankee.
Its more the fact so many people are compelled to take time out of their day to comment of such a minor move of another team.
Im a Yankees fan and I barely care about this move.
If your team signed maybin i certainly wouldn’t even read the article, much less comment.
See the difference?
Sooooo, in your world unless something that happens in baseball and it involves the team you tend to root for, you have no business reading an article about said baseball news item and should never ever comment on said news item……. Guess one can not be a baseball fan and like the entire sport. Must choose a team and ignore every other one….gotcha….
No, because what you seem to take a form of persecution happens to literally every other team in every sport on the planet…
Goz read the beginning of my first post, did I single out anyone??
Read First, Then reply to the facts.
Yankees Smashers in just about every Yankee’s Post.
We know he is not a super star, but neither are the kids or other guys
traded to NY chipping in, oh yeah, great job from everyone
@ Petrie
Yeah, welcome to the internet. Open a discussion to anyone, and unsurprisingly you’ll get the opinions of people who aren’t loyalists.
Hating would be people ripping good players for dumb reasons simply because of the Jersey they wear.
Making a little fun of a legitimately bad player and a team for acquiring him doesn’t meet the standard
Strikes me that most of the player and Cashman haters are actual Yankees fans. See below.
Cole. not only a fan, but a silly retort! Lol Omg.
Long time Yankee fan. Wait, I gotta leave…phone is ringing, it might be Cash. see ya.
The Yankees have so many injuries that almost no one mentioned Frazier’s injury!
And in future news Camron Maybin has been placed on the 10 day IL
I was at the game last night. CC is throwing batting practice, nothing even above 88 mph!
Sanchez is horrible!!!!!!just horrible. This is a AAA team.
And the Angels lost third straight against that tripl AAA team.
Sick of Cashman riding the success he had early on! He got far too much credit for the late 90’s/ early 2000’s when in all actuality he rode the shirttails of the GM before him. Since that time he’s done no recruiting, no building and only signed high priced free agents. I could do that!
Signing free agents is both recruiting and building, just not in the same romanticized way as tanking and drafting is.
Cashman’s kept the Yankees a top tier franchise for decades, he deserve his credit
He deserves no credit. He’s done nothing with what was for years the largest payroll in baseball. All of his acquisitions are either over hyped prospects or overpaid free agents. He was able to overhype his farm for a long time and fool other teams into thinking they were getting legit talent but in the end they were all busts! That’s how he has built a team year after year. Now everyone has caught onto his game and the trades just aren’t there anymore either. The Yankees will be near the bottom in the AL East by the time his contract is done. Nobody trusts him, not even agents for players. That’s coming from a Yankee fan of 45 years that lived through it all and knows more than just having enough to scrape by for a season and having a legit World Series team. Patchwork rotations and youngsters that’s all bat with no glove is not going to cut it. The only thing Cashman can take credit for right now is Aaron Judge, all the rest are overhyped by the New York press.
Sevy is good, Gardy is ending a good career, Clint Frazier is breaking out
Right… Us adults are gonna be over there talking about reality for a while. Feel free to join us when you actually want to discuss that too…
He build a terrific young core without A having top draft picks and B without having the highest payroll in the league. Your assessment of him is beyond silly
This is why you shouldn’t do drugs.
Not sure why this guy keeps getting chance’s when a class act like Denard Span is still out there.
Well, Span is three years older and do we even know if he still wants to play? Span has made 56 million bucks in his career. Maybe he’s just done.
Well at least in NY Maybin can get drunk and take the subway
Is Maybin the new Kenny Lofton?
that’s incredibly disrespectful to kenny lofton. lofton had consecutive 7+ WAR seasons by the time dude was 26 which already surpassed maybin’s career WAR. shame
Woah, seriously? Kenny Lofton is a borderline Hall of Famer, Probably should be in. 68.3 career WAR; according to Jay Jaffe’s JAWS metric, Lofton is the tenth best center fielder of all time. There’s a dozen hall-of-famers who are below him. Lofton and Maybin have exactly one thing in common, which may be why you made this comment, but Kenny Lofton was a tremendous player, and Cam Maybin is just a journeyman.
My comment was about Maybin joining his ninth (?) team in the past five years.
Definitely not about their abilities. I would have thought that was without saying but I guessed wrong.
It’s six teams in 5 years for each of them. Lofton was still highly productive during those last five years.
Lofton’s final season, at age 40: 296/367/414. More walks than Ks. 30 tries. 86 runs scored in 136 games….unbelievable that he couldn’t get a job the next year.
Oops, meant to write 23 steals in 30 tries.
I’m surprised they didn’t tap into the Pirates considering how many people are coming off of their DL. I know it is not Machado or Harper, but Shuck, Cabrera, Dickerson and Marte will be available soon. They could have probably even obtained Polanco.
The Pirates are like the Yanks right now. As one comes back the lose at least one more to the IL..They have been hammered by injuries in the last couple of weeks too. Lot of OF still out. Dickerson and Marte or Polanco will not be available but Shuck, Cabrera, and Chisenhall will be available real soon.
The Pirates are not trading Polanco nor Marte,and I think that they will keep Cabrera as the fourth outfielder.Shuck is definitely available now as they will have to put him on waivers.The fascinating question is what will they do with Chisenhall once Dickerson comes back.
I think that Martin will go back to AAA soon,and Reynolds will too once Marte comes back.
Chisenhall will probably hit the 60-day IL with a strained calf by then, so it will be academic
Wasn’t Lastings Milledge available?
I don’t think a guy like Maybin is going to be the one to break their injury curse lol. Who’s next, Shelby Miller?
Trey Amburgey and Billy Burns are AAA Scranton OFs. Cameron Maybin may not be as good as they are.
Nor is he as good as Ackley who’s healthy and hit .286 last yr not (.215 maybin) and would sign for less 750k
Hey the way things are going maybin might get hurt playing his first game in stripes
How can you have this many outfielders, all-star outfielders at that, and have them all be injured? Amazing.